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P WOLL, Jr

MANUFACTURE OF GURLE'D HAIR.

No. 497,737. Patented May 16, 1893.

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PETER VVOLL, JR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MANUFACTURE OF CURLED HAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,737, dated May 16,1893.

Application filed February 27, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER WOLL, Jr., a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in the Manufacture of Curled Hair, of which thefollowing is a description, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making part hereof.

My invention relates most particularly to the manufacture of what isknown as mixed hair, or hair composed of a mixture of long hair, such ashorse hair (from the tail or mane) and short staple, such as hog hair:in short, long and short stapled hair.

The nature of my invention will fully appear from the followingdescription and claims.

In the drawings which shows a machine in which my invention can bepracticed:-Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of my device, partly insection; Fig. 2, a partial elevation, in part sectional, illustratingthe hopper and blower and their parts; Fig. 3, abroken transverseelevation, partly in section; showing the fan or blower and the tubedelivering the short hair upon the lap of long hair on the endlessapron, which apron carries the lap and the deposit of short hair to thetwister.

A, is the frame of the machine.

B, G, D, E, F, L and G are pulleys and cogwheels to operate themechanism. These require no special description here, as they aredevices well known to skilled mechanics.

H is a table or platform upon which the long hair A' (say horse hair) isspread: the latter being thence fed to ordinary feeding rolls (notshown) which are driven by cogwheels H H.

I 1 is a combing machine, provided with teeth or combs I 1. This machinecombs and renders nearly parallel the long hairs received from the rollsdriven by the wheels 11 H".

I 1" are cog-wheels which drive rolls (not shown) which are adapted toreceive and draw from the combs the lap formed by the latter and whichlap is deposited by the action of said last named rolls upon the endlessapron J. The roll directly driven by the cog-wheel 1 carries one part ofendless apron J.

J is a roller carryinganother part of apron J.

K K are spiral springs mounted upon rods and adapted, by any desiredpressure of said Serial No.883,130. (N0 specimens.)

screws K K, to bear upon the journals of cog-wheels H I.

K" is a hopper, on one side of the frame, into which is deposited theshort hair A (hog or cattle hair) intended to be spread upon the lap A.

A" A are drums for carrying the wire cloth L, which latter is adapted topick up the hairs A from the mass.

L is a trimmer roller, armed with teeth or pins to knock off the surplushair from wire cloth L.

M is a tube provided with a flaring mouth M, which latter opens close toand for the whole width of cloth L.

N is a fan blower which draws from tube M and mouth M the hair carriedover by the endless cloth L.

M is a tube, through which the blower N drives the short hair to thecurved portion M of said pipe or tube N, from which curved deliverymouth piece the short hair is spread upon the lap A. The short materialso dropped is carried with the lap to and into the funnel O, whichenvelops the short hair within the lap.

P P are cog-wheels.

S S are rolls which bite the roving coming to them and present it to thetwisters and curlers.

Q Q are capstans and R R are fliers.

The cog-wheels and central tube, through which latter the lap, now agasket,'passcs, twist and curl or spiralize the gasket, and the rolls SS prevent this twist and curl from extending back to the lap. Thetwisted and curled gasket is taken up by the capstans and and deliveredto the fliers.

The speeds of the various parts can be regulated, or rather changed bymethods well known to all skilled mechanics.

I am well aware of the invention of Lein- Weber patented May 1, 1866,and I do not claim as my invention the device therein described.

The terms curling and spiralizing, in the art to which this inventionrelates, are synonymous.

I hereby disclaim all that is shown and known of the prior state of theart but what I claim as new is 1. The improved method of manufacturingcurled hair which consists in spreadingalayer then twisting and curlingthe hairs substanof loose short hairs upon a lap of long hairs, tiallyas described. 10 enveloping the loose short hairs by the lap of Inwitness that the foregoing is my invenlong hair, then twisting andcurling or spiraltion I have hereunto set my hand.

izing the hair, substantially as described. PETER WOLL, JR.

2. The improved method of manufacturing Witnesses: curled hair, whichconsistsin spreadingalayer DANIEL SCHLEICH, J r.,

of loose short hairs upon a lap of long hairs, CHARLES APPLETON.

